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(The Complete Trilogy)
Author: R.K. Lilley
Alasdair Masters is in a rut. He just hit forty, has been nearly celibate for the past year, and his life has turned into a daily sequence of lonely patterns that revolve around avoiding human contact.
(The Complete Trilogy)
Author: R.K. Lilley
The Wild Side (The Wild Side #1)
Alasdair Masters is in a rut. He just hit forty, has been nearly celibate for the past year, and his life has turned into a daily sequence of lonely patterns that revolve around avoiding human contact.
His tidy life is turned on its head when a hot young blonde at the gym that's been pseudo-stalking him decides to rock his world. A very young blonde. Way, way too young for him. The problem is, he can't seem to tell her no, and she just keeps coming back for more.
It doesn't help that he's ninety percent sure she's a criminal, and still, he can't seem to turn her down. What is a dull introvert to do when a chaotic cyclone that oozes sexuality comes twisting into his life?
At first, he thinks she'll give him a heart attack, but after his twenty-year marriage ended a year ago, he's been a little lost, and when she comes crashing into his life, he realizes that he's never felt more alive.
Is a walk on the wild side just what he needs to get his on track or a disaster in the making? Is it possible for someone that much younger to be just what he needs, or is she a fortune hunter, as everyone keeps telling him? Is it his hormones telling him that the mysterious younger woman is the one, or could it be more?
IRIS (The Wild Side #2)
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Who is Iris? Where did she come from? Where has she gone?
Alasdair Masters has more questions than answers about his new, too young obsession, and when he finds out she's been lying to him, from their first meeting to their last one, he's more confused than ever about her feelings, her intentions.
And what's just as confusing are his own feelings. Has he turned something purely physical into something emotional in his own head? Is any of it mutual?
The only thing he doesn't question is whether he'll keep going back for more.
Me, I was simple. I was order. A very neat, efficient machine that ran on nothing but air.
Me plus anyone else, well, that was another matter. And me plus Iris, that was a monster of a machine, with all gears going at different speeds, some spinning off their hinges, just going mad, but it was a wonderful madness, at full throttle, misfiring in all directions.
It felt wonderful and dreadful.
I was breaking down, and it felt amazing.
And terrifying.
This book is intended for readers 18 and up
Dair (The Wild Side #3)
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I'd started writing everything about her down. I didn't want to forget.
The color of her hair. The depth of her eyes. The stubborn shape of her jaw. The way her lips shaped words with such expression. The way her voice made my chest ache. The way she gave advice beyond her years.
The way she listened like she cared about every word.
The way she made me feel—Alive.
Every curve and hollow of her body was recorded, in my mind, and now my hard drive.
There was a bit of truth in every lie, and even if it had only been fed to me in the smallest increments, I wanted, needed to remember the real Iris.
Because in the end, there was one irrefutable thing that I couldn't deny.
Hostage or hustler, sinner or saint, whatever she was or wasn't, whether she lied to my face or taunted me with hints of the truth, all of this seemed always to defer to the more pertinent fact at hand.
She was mine.
After yet another shocking discovery, followed by a disturbing letter, Dair is almost certain Iris has left his life for good. He tries his best to move on.
Easier said than done, and when an unexpected and dangerous opportunity arises for him to find out what happened to her, he doesn't hesitate to take it.
As usual, with Iris, the answer leaves him more lost than the question.
Every revelation is shrouded in mystery, and every disclosure leaves Dair more in the dark than ever.
And when finally, the messy truth is revealed in its entirety, will he be ready for it?
This is the final installment in Iris and Dair's story
This book is intended for readers 18 and up.
I had a bit of a nervous breakdown after Iris left without a trace.
It was the strangest thing, but I suddenly didn't like my own company so much.
In fact, I began to hate it, even at home.
I still went to the gym at the exact same time, every single day, in the small hope that she'd show again. She didn't, but I kept going, because I wanted to see her again.
She hadn't been in my life for long, but I missed her.
Being that I couldn't stand my own company, I began to reconnect with old friends, people I hadn't talked to since the divorce, the friends I'd chalked up to losses in the breakup; Tammy's assets when we'd been chopping our combined life in half.
For some reason, they all seemed very happy to hear from me. I felt like a jerk for going into full hermit mode and attempted to have something of a social life again.
I'd often meet up with another writer friend for coffee or lunch after my workout, telling myself that if I just kept working at it—being a normal person, with normal social habits—it wouldn't feel so forced.
And it was true. Two months post Iris, and I was looking forward to having coffee with my friend, Benji.
He was already sitting at a table as I entered the café a few shops down from my gym.
I waved at him, saw he had an extra coffee for me, and bypassed the line to go directly to him.
He slid me the cup as I sat down.
"You make your deadline?" I asked him. Like me, he was a neurotic, work obsessed writer, and so we always had something to talk about. It was good. Distractions were good. The more the better. The more plates spinning the better, these days.
He nodded with a grin, pushing his thick glasses up high on his nose, and sweeping his light brown hair away from his face. He was a good seven years my junior, with a lean, nerdy look that I thought suited him. He wore it well. "How about you? I know you were early on your publisher's deadline, but how is your indie project coming along?"
"Good. Good. My word count is flowing faster than ever. I should be done in about four weeks."
He whistled. "Will you sell it to the publisher, if they decide they like it and make you a good offer?"
I shrugged. "I doubt it. This whole project is an experiment for me. It won't be much fun if I don't get to at least see how making seventy percent compares to making, yanno, eight."
He shook his head, smiling wryly. "You're forgetting your advance. You can't tell me they don't give you plenty up front."
I shrugged again. "Like I said, this one is an experiment. I doubt even my publisher can sway me, and it's not exactly written in the genre I'm known for, so they wouldn't write me a big check for it, anyway."
"You're probably right." He sighed. "I envy you the flexibility to do what you want. Some of us are still writing just to pay the bills."
We sipped coffee and talked shop for a bit. We were just getting ready to leave when he suddenly trailed off mid-sentence, looking at something behind me.
I turned to see what it was, and an electric fire went off in my brain at the sight that met my eyes.
Setting my jaw hard, I turned carefully away.
So the back of that blonde woman in line resembled Iris, so what?
This wasn't the first time my brain had tricked me into thinking she was somewhere close.
But it was never her. I'd see some young blonde thing out of the corner of my eye and turn to stare until I met a stranger's blank stare.
Not today. Today I was going to ignore the urge to obsess. It wasn't her, just some young woman with a great body. She wasn't even dressed correctly, wearing a pleated skirt and a belted, collared blouse.
Iris wouldn't be caught dead in business attire.
"Holy fucking shit, man. Did you see that chick?" Benji asked, his tone reverent.
My mouth quirked up in a rueful smile. Even the most civilized men turned into mouth-breathers if a hot enough woman walked into the room.
"I did." I took a long sip of coffee, watching Benji, who just kept watching the woman in line, forcing myself, with great effort, to stifle the urge to turn around again. "Nice ass," I noted.
"Yes. But you need to turn around and check out the rest of her. Huge titties, man."
I rolled my eyes. There was a bit of a generation gap between us. My generation thought shit like that, but then we kept it to ourselves, like grown-ups.
"Big soft tits," he continued, "in a semi-sheer white blouse. Fuuuck. She's got a tan. How many articles you think I need to write to bang a chick that out of my league?"
"A lot," I mused, still staying firmly with my back to the woman in question.
"Like how many is a lot?"
"What do you make? Like five hundred an article? I'd say about two thousand of those, minimum. If she's as hot as she looked from the back, though, you'd need to be well into the millionaire club before she'd give you the time of day, so more like five thousand articles, realistically."
His eyes were wide as he finally looked away from the hot chick and back to me. "Really? That is fucking depressing, dude."
I shrugged. "Yeah. But the really sad part is you'd have to spend a good chunk of that cash on her, if you wanted her to stay around for any length of time."
He shook his head. "I think you've gone cynical, after Tammy."
I couldn't dispute that. Not a bit. "You may be right. What can I say? Divorce messes with your head." I didn't bring up Iris. I hadn't told him about her. "Why don't you go ask her out, if you're so certain I'm wrong?"
He laughed. "I didn't say you were wrong, I said you were cynical, and so am I. That chick is out of my league, period. I need more money to bag a woman like that. Or at the very least, better looks and a bigger dick. And look at that, fuck, she's already leaving. I was hoping she'd sit down to drink her coffee, and let me look at her for a few more minutes."
"Maybe you were creeping her out. You've barely taken your eyes off her since she walked in the door."
He didn't even seem to hear me. "Oh, no, wait, she's only going to the bathroom. I thought it was weird she was leaving without her order. Did you see her shoes, man? Those are some 'fuck-me' stilettos. And her hair is in this tight bun, and she's wearing sexy librarian glasses. Will you please turn and look when she comes back out? I will drop the subject if you will just get a better view of her and agree with me that she's a ten."
"Nope. Not doing it. That poor girl does not need us both creeping out on her. I'll take your word for it."
That seemed to settle the matter. He dropped it.
His phone rang; he checked the screen and started cursing. "I've got to run. Same time next week?"
I nodded, and he left. I didn't move and still didn't turn around. I had that feeling, a tingle on my neck, like I was being watched from behind, and I was again talking myself out of obsessing about Iris.
But burned in my brain was the image of the back of that woman, and in spite of myself, I was comparing.
And a small part of me was enjoying the torture of imagining it could be her, that she would find me again.
Finally, I cracked, turning to look, thinking that the woman must have left, so I should just get it over with, like pulling off a Band-Aid.
And there she was.
There was Iris, standing only feet away, holding a cup of coffee and watching me, her expression very blank. She was wearing sexy librarian glasses, her hair in a tight bun, just like Benji had said.
And it really was her, in the flesh.
She wore white, and her clothes were fitted enough to show off every lush curve. Her mouthwatering breasts were clearly outlined, the buttons of her blouse open enough to show an extravagant amount of cleavage.
How had I forgotten just how stunning she was? How captivating?
Her large breasts were even more exceptional than I remembered, as though I'd dreamt her up as a comic book version of herself.
Iris squared.
The moment our eyes met, she began to move, walking with easy grace to sit across from me.
She looked cold, so icy blonde and beautiful, like some mix of Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly.
Terrible and beautiful.
It felt like fatal voltage to my chest just to look at her like that.
It was Iris, but Iris as a stranger. No, it was worse than that. It was like she was a curious, wild, imaginary creature, with the pieces of her just now put together, invented for my eyes, not how I remembered at all, because even when she'd been angry, she had never been cold.
Then she smiled, and it was her again, all traces of the cold stranger gone.
Which one was the real Iris?
"Hello, Dair."
I swallowed hard and saw her eyes dart to my throat.
"Hello, Iris."
"God, I missed the sound of your voice."
"The sound of my voice?" My voice caught on the question awkwardly, breaking slightly on the last word.
She had such a talent for catching me off guard.
"Yes. You have the best voice, like a stern school teacher."
My brain short-circuited for a bit before I could respond. "You say the most outrageous things."
She laughed, and its tinkling sound felt like velvet across the back of my neck. "Is that all you have to say to me, after all this time?" she asked quietly.
"I'm sorry for all the things—"
"I don't want you to take those things back, if you still believe them, and besides, that's not what I meant. Don't you have anything else to say to me?"
I took a few deep breaths. "Where have you been? And why are you back now?"
"That's not what I meant, either. And I don't want to talk about that. Didn't you miss me?"
She reached a hand across the table, and I found one of mine grasping it, lacing our fingers tightly together.
My eyes squeezed shut. It felt very good to touch her again, even just her hand. "Yes, Iris, I missed you very much."
"There you go. Was that so hard? I missed you, too. You look good." She tugged her hand away, and my eyes opened to follow its retreat.
"Why are you dressed like that?"
She looked like she was trying not to smile. "Like what?"
"Like a professional. Why are you wearing glasses? What are you doing? Where did you go? Where have you been?"
She glanced around, and the way she did it struck me as more than a little paranoid. "Want to go for a walk?"
My heart started pounding hard.
I didn't hesitate.
"Of course I do," I said, absolutely no thought required.
I'd take a walk with her anytime, anywhere.
She smiled, taking off those sexy glasses. "Well, then, let's get out of here."
R.K. Lilley lives in Colorado with her husband and their two beautiful sons. She's had a lot of interesting jobs, from being a first class flight attendant, to being a stablehand, but swears she never knew what hard work was until she had children. She's been addicted to both reading and writing fiction since she can remember. She loves to travel, read, hike, paint, game, watch anime, and make the most of every single day. She is the author of the erotic romance novels In Flight, Mile High, Grounded, and the novella, Lana.


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Patterns of faunal change at an upper Cambrian trilobite extinction event, Nolichucky Formation, Tennessee and Virginia (Brock University, 1996-07-09)During the Upper Cambrian there were three mass extinctions, each of which eliminated at least half of the trilobite families living in North American shelf seas. The Nolichucky Formation preserves the record of one of ...

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Old democracies have space for Improvement – Maina Kiai
–United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai today urged the British Government to review a number of legal and policing measures affecting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
"No matter how old a democracy, there is always space for continued improvements," said the first independent expert charged by the United Nations Human Rights Council to monitor and promote the realization of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association worldwide, at the end of his official mission* to the United Kingdom.
England and Wales (peaceful assembly):
"I am deeply concerned with the use of embedded undercover police officers in groups that are non-violent and which exercise their democratic rights to protest and take peaceful direct action," the Special Rapporteur noted, recalling the case of Mark Kennedy and other undercover officers. "The duration of this infiltration, and the resultant trauma and suspicion it has caused, are unacceptable in a democracy."
Mr. Kiai called for a judge-led public enquiry into this and other related cases, "with a view to giving voice to victims, especially women, who were deliberately deceived by their own government, and paving the way for reparations."
"These cases are as damaging as the 'phone-hacking' matters which were the subject of a judge-led public inquiry, and it is crucial that similar practices by the state, in relation to groups which are simply implementing their civic duty to peacefully campaign for change, be subject to an independent investigation," he stressed.
The rights expert drew attention to Article 13 of the Public Order Act, which allows for the prohibition of marches, as in the case of the recent blanket ban on marches of 30 days in parts of London to prevent the English Defence League, a xenophobic group, from protesting. "While I acknowledge that such a measure has only been used twice in 30 years, I firmly believe that it is intrinsically disproportionate and discriminatory as it affects all citizens wanting to exercise their right to freedom of peacefully assembly," he noted.
"I am further concerned about the police practice of containment or 'kettling' which has been used in London in the past years," Mr. Kiai said, stressing that peaceful protestors, as well as innocent by-standers – such as tourists – have been held for long hours with no access to water or sanitary facilities. "I believe that this practice is detrimental to the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly due to its indiscriminate and disproportionate nature."
The Special Rapporteur warned that 'kettling' is apparently being used for intelligence gathering purposes, by compelling those kettled to disclose their name and address as they leave the kettle, increasing the deterrence effect it has on potential protesters.
Regarding 'domestic extremism,' Mr. Kiai warned that its definition is too broad. He noted that peaceful protesters fear they could easily be grouped in this category, along with real extremists. "Some police officials, while ostensibly differentiating between extremist groups and others that use direct action, often conflate them, especially when the protest groups are horizontal," he said.
Northern Ireland (peaceful assembly):
"The current 'flag protests' have significantly increased tensions between the communities, and I urge leaders from both sides to dialogue genuinely," Mr. Kiai said. "Where such dialogue has taken place, there has been progress as Derry Londonderry exemplifies, and I commend the work of civil society organizations working on inter-community relations and human rights."
However, the human rights expert highlighted that without a political resolution of the tensions and divisions in Northern Ireland, "parades have become a prime location for these tensions and divisions, and all indications are that the forthcoming parading season will be a difficult one."
"The need for an independent body such as the Parades Commission is undisputed," the expert stressed, noting however that unionists view it as biased against them for imposing restrictions and limits to what they believe is their absolute freedom to march. "Yet article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights does impose restrictions on rights. And this is especially poignant given the bloody history of Northern Ireland," Mr. Kiai underscored.
Scotland (peaceful assembly):
"Unlike the situation in Northern Ireland, where a 28-day notification procedure may be necessary because of the contentious nature of some parades, I found little justification for a similar period of notification in Scotland," he said.
"I was made aware that cost recovery measures are imposed on parade organisers by some local authorities, a situation that I find troubling," the expert noted. "Cost recovery measures place an unjustifiable burden on parade organisers and have the effect of unduly restricting the exercise of peaceful assembly."
Freedom of association:
"In the context of the fight against terrorism, a number of organisations have been proscribed while there was reportedly no proof that these organisations had been active in terrorist activities, as stressed by the Independent Reviewer for Terrorist Legislation," Mr. Kiai noted. "Such measures have had a deterrent impact on communities (such as Tamil, Kurdish or Baloch) which have on occasion been afraid of expressing themselves publicly."
With regard to trade unions, the expert found undue constraints on the right to strike as solidarity strikes have not been allowed since 1982. "It is time to repeal this law and bring the UK into conformity with human rights law," he said.
The Special Rapporteur was also appalled to hear about the existence of a blacklist of union members in the construction industry, with no sanctions allegedly taken against those who benefitted from the list. "It is crucial that strong actions be taken against the making and using of such lists as a deterrence," he underscored.
"The United Kingdom, like much of the world, is going through some tough economic challenges that will undoubtedly cause dislocation and discontent. It is in such difficult times, with angry and frustrated citizens, that the respect for freedom of peaceful assembly must be at its highest," he noted.
"To quote Martin Luther King, 'the ultimate measure of a man [country] is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,' Mr. Kiai said. "That is the challenge for the United Kingdom in these times."
During his ten-day visit to the UK, the expert went to London, Belfast and Edinburgh where he met senior officials, representatives of the legislature, human rights commissions and other independent monitoring institutions, and civil society.
A final report on the visit will be presented by the Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council during its zwemty-third session (27 May to 14 June 2013).
(*) Check the full end-of-mission statement by the Special Rapporteur:http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12945&LangID=E
Mr. Maina Kiai (Kenya) took up his functions as the first Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on May 2011. Mr. Kiai has been Executive Director of the International Council on Human Rights Policy; Chair of the Kenya National Human Rights Commission; Africa Director of the International Human Rights Law Group; and Africa Director of Amnesty International. As Special Rapporteur, he is independent from any Government or organization and serves in his individual capacity.


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New Zealand Post wants to cut mail deliveries from
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. . .The last decade has seen an unprecedented drop in mail volumes. There was 24 percent less mail (265 million fewer items) posted in 2012 than a decade before in 2002. Within five years mail volumes are forecast to decline further, to just over 600 million items – in other words, just 50 percent of the mail volume in 2002. . .
Reduced charges for toll calls and electronic communication and banking have significantly reduced the need for snail mail.
My mother used to spend Sunday evening writing letters to family and friends. I resort to letters or cards I have to post on a very few special occasions in a year.
We still get and pay some bills by mail but most of our invoices and payments are received and sent on-line.
We do though get our newspaper with the mail and if it doesn't come daily we'll have to find another delivery service or make do with the digital edition.
When NZ Post started charging rural box holders some years ago companies which wanted junk mail delivered forced them to drop the fee to increase their market.
They might be the ones most affected by a reduction in deliveries.
Junk mail usually goes straight to the bin in our house, it would be even less likely to be read if more came at once because it was delivered less often.


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What a strange, confusing, and occasionally wonderful movie this was...
"Masks" is a heart warming little tale about an aspiring young actress who travels to Germany to be taught in a school that was once led by an insane instructor who killed himself after his techniques were banned. From what I can tell those techniques includes forcing people to scream after each other and then have an orgy while covered in blood. For your viewing pleasure a few images and a new trailer has hit the tubes and surprise surprise, it's bat shit insane.
"Yellowbrickroad" has absolutely nothing to do with "The Wizard of Oz" and most of all has no regard for spaces in between words. It does though sound pretty cool and the new trailer that's up looks pretty trippy. The movie focuses on a research group that uncovers a mysterious trail that an entire town went down and disappeared over 70 years ago. I hope there's munchkins at least. Those little fellas are adorable.
To say the last season of "Dexter" was kind of a bummer is putting it mildly but according to the new teaser for Season 6 all hell is going to break loose. The only reason I believe it is because they do a recap of previous seasons in the clip and don't even mention the storyline of season 5. It's like Julia Stiles never existed! It's like I haven't watched "Save the Last Dance" and cried like a baby every Christmas Eve for the last 10 years.
Lastly, tune in to tonight's "Attack of the Show" on G4 to see the brand spanking new trailer for "Final Destination 5". Or don't actually. I'm not going to lose any sleep either way. I can't keep tabs on all you sickos.


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Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the NAKED bride"
Few things bring out the best and worstin people like a wedding. Pulling together the detailsfrom flowers to dress to guestscan strain even the most compatible couples, and that's before adding in the requisite meddling mother-in-law. Yikes.
But when the big day comes– as the newlyweds on the following pages attestthe hard work pays off. Family is together, love is in the air, and even the most embittered, thrice-divorced guest can appreciate an open bar!
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We can't look at the standings. Who cares about the standings?Mike Puma, Post:
Good thing the Yankees are leaving town for 11 days - it will take at least that long to fumigate the Stadium from the rancid odor left behind by the home team.Mike Mussina (before the Red Sox won):
The fans even let Joe Torre have it yesterday, booing the manager for his ill-fated decision to replace Mike Mussina with Scott Proctor in the seventh inning. ...
Even the usually unflappable Jeter had some urgency in his voice after the Yankees lost for the seventh time in 10 games and fell a season-high six games below .500.
"You can't give up, you have to continue to fight," Jeter said. "But you do have to get some wins here."
How many games are we out? ... [He is told] ... Twelve is a lot. ... We need what, 72, 73 wins from here? With four months to play [and 114 games], to get to 30 games over ... [W]e have guys who can pitch and hit and score runs, but we just have to do it at the same time.Brian Cashman ("his voice barely above a whisper"):
We can't worry about the division, the 12 games back, the wild card or anything. We just have to worry about "that day" and hope we swing a lot of "that days" together.Anthony Rieber, Newsday:
Is it time to worry about the division race?Torre:
"I think it's an appropriate time," said Mike Mussina ...
It is time to stop saying it's early?
"Yeah, but I don't know what you do about it," manager Joe Torre said. "It's not that 'now it's time to panic.' Then what do you do?"
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Full Body Harness:
Each jumper wears two independent harnesses. A seat harness supports the waist, thighs and buttocks while a chest harness supports the chest, back and shoulders. The bungee cords are attached to your harness at the stomach.
Ankle Harness:
Two independent ankle harnesses securely attach both ankles. The ankle harness is also attached to the waist harness. Therefore ankle jumps actually include three separate harnesses. The bungee cords are attached to your harness at the ankles. Ultimately you will be hanging upside down from your feet.
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While wearing the Full Body Harness you will stand like a soldier on the jump platform facing your friends on the bridge. Keeping your feet on the jump platform and your body stiff as an oak tree, you will pendulum backward off the jump platform like a falling oak tree.
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Cook the Book: Cheese and Olive Salad
Today's Cook the Book recipe is one that the late James Beard, "the dean of American gastronomy," recommended as a dish to serve "at a buffet party, with cold meats for luncheon, or to take on a picnic." (Of course, you better hurry on that last one.)
As with all the Cook the Book entries this week, this recipe comes from
- 2 pounds Gruyère or Emmentaler cheese
- 2 cups finely chopped green onions or scallions
- 1 1/2 cups sliced stuffed green olives, and more for garnish
- Fresh salad greens: Bibb, Boston, butter or leaf lettuce, or romain
- Dressing
- 1 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup wine vinegar
- 4 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Finely shred the cheese. Combine with the green onions or scallions and the sliced stuffed green olives, mixing well. Toss with the dressing, made by mixing all the dressing ingredients together. Arrange on a green nest of fresh salad greens in a salad bowl, piling the salad up nicely. Garnish with more stuffed green olives.


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"Drill Bit" Leadership in D.C.
In D.C., it's looking increasingly like City Council Chairman Vincent Gray is going to beat Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary. This is a shocker. Given Fenty's deep pockets, huge 2006 victory, and positive developments on crime and schooling, he was widely thought a lock for re-election when this year began. In edu-circles, the question is what this means for D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who's had a tempestuous three years while struggling to transform a broken system that couldn't track personnel records, open schools on time, or provide textbooks to students.
When drilling through a tough surface, industrial drilling crews often require more than one drill bit. If the first bit wears out, they swap it for a second bit and keep going. Drill teams don't walk away even if they wear out a half-dozen bits; they keep pushing, using each fresh bit to extend the work of its predecessor. In this way, they eventually chisel through even the most resistant surface.
Dysfunctional school systems like the one Rhee inherited in 2007 are an especially tough surface. Most superintendents are like drills that merely skirt along the surface. Those who do not, who bite into rock and start boring in, can be worn out--as Andy "Eduwonk" Rotherham noted Sunday in a terrific Washington Post piece--by all the fighting and pushing they have to do. When it comes to teacher evaluation, the teacher contract, textbook distribution, special education, scheduling, data systems, and much else, Rhee's team has gotten DCPS to the point where it is functional. It isn't yet an especially good school system, but it's no longer broken and it's positioned to be something much more.
Unlike those industrial drill crews, municipal leaders tend not to swap a fresh bit for the old one. Instead, if a bit wears out, they back up, abandon their progress, and seek a less demanding path. That is the danger here. As much as I like and respect Michelle Rhee, I'm not concerned about her; if she leaves DCPS, she'll be inundated with compelling offers. And I'm not worried about her team; many folks are eager to start poaching the talent she's assembled. The shame is that so much of what Rhee has accomplished will be lost if Gray views a change in leadership as a chance to ease up or change direction rather than an opportunity to swap in a new bit.
The drill bit question looms especially large because, in addition to Rhee, D.C. state chief Kerri Briggs is also a mayoral appointee. If Gray doesn't make an explicit and straightforward play to keep Rhee, or to keep Briggs and find a new supe unequivocally committed to pressing on Rhee's wins, it will be one more depressing play of an all-too-familiar rerun. So, what will Gray do? Will he let Rhee go but keep Briggs and other key members of the DCPS team? Will he make a half-hearted effort to keep Rhee, while attaching conditions such that she's sure to walk? Gray knows that he needn't remove Rhee; he need only be sufficiently equivocal, and she'll spare him the dirty work.
Steve Peha recently recognized our tendency to treat the initial drilling as if it's the whole ballgame, pointing out, "Heroic leadership is exciting. It's all BANG! POW! WHAM! And the bad guys are taken care of. This is the stuff of great daytime TV drama. But it is not without risk... For example, Ms. Rhee has recruited many people. Will these people stay after she is gone?"
Gray strikes me as careful, deliberate, and a nice enough man. He said in last week's mayoral debate, "I do not feel beholden to anybody to do certain things because they endorsed me or contributed to my campaign." Given how hard the Washington Teachers Union is working for him--on the airwaves and on the ground--Gray's dealings with Rhee offer him an important chance to walk that walk.


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Again and Again
The loop is the unsteady cornerstone of contemporary technology, both a basic structure of computer code and the physical shape of reels of film and tape that continue to inform conceptual understanding of digital media. The loop is also a metaphor for time—a cycle that returns to the same disasters again and again—that opposes the sunnier notion of time as a river running forward. The Wheel of the Devil, a screening of video- and internet-based art presented by MTAA and critic Ed Halter, promises a dark reflection on those ideas, which they collapse in the formula "while (history) { history = true; }." The Friday night program will feature loops by JODI, Rick Silva, Brody Condon, Jon Rafman, Deidre LaCarte, Michael Sarff, MTAA, Hayley A. Silverman, Mathwrath, Chris Coy, Michael Bell-Smith, jimpunk, and more. The first loop will be launched at 8, and the last will be cut off at 10.
Transparency Theory
What do elementary school audiovisual departments have in their arsenals these days? Are fifth-grade teachers teaching with PowerPoint? That seems hard to believe, since mine barely mastered the overhead projector. She could never put the transparency right-side up and left-side left on the first try. The overhead projector's flipping technique required the user's brain to undo what the eyes do for it, in order to make one sheet of paper's worth of information available to collective vision.
The tricky optics alone should be enough to interest artists in the overhead projector, but an exhibition dedicated to the device in Malmo, Sweden, focuses on the precious, nostalgic appeal of this quaint technology. Opening Friday and running through May 30, "The Art of the Overhead" will feature an archive of projectable documents and a spate of live programs: a projection-based performance by Katrin Bethge, an analogue computer game by magic-lantern artists Milk Milk Lemonade, and an interactive planetarium from Sue Corke and Hagen Betzwieser. Since Sunday these artists and others have been taking part in an OHPen Surface Workshop, sharing the projects they've prepared for the overhead projector and discussing how they've adapted the technologies they use in their usual practices, which range from sound art to minimal robotics. The full program is available at www.overheads.org, a site that makes nice use of another obsolete technology, the marquee.
Mix It Up
Mixology, the annual festival curated by the new music and new media organization Roulette, got off to a strong start last week with opening night performances by Pamela Z and Elliott Sharp, presented in collaboration with Harvestworks. Pamela Z demonstrated her use of gesture to control sound, which she produces with her own operatic voice as well as electronically. Elliott Sharp was a one-man noise band, playing both an amplified saxophone and a keyboard-based instrument while manipulating both on his laptop. The night ended with an improvised duet, in which Pamela Z played her iPhone like an ocarina.
Performances continued through the weekend and will resume tonight. Tomorrow's program features Matthew Ostrowski, who will pick up themes of gesture and sampling with a new work titled "Patterns of Changing Light." Mixology runs through May 30, concluding with a performance by downtown stalwart David Rosenbloom, whose piece Sound and Light I continues his thirty-year-long exploration of dense sonic textures with a more recent integration of video as the basis for an evolving score. The full program for the rest of Mixology can be found on Roulette's calendar.
School Day
The spring show of ITP, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program, which was open to the public last Sunday and Monday, was a like science fair, with students eager to show the results of their projects, and also like a job fair, with middle-aged men in suits prowling for fresh-faced innovators. There's an atmosphere of authentic creative exploration surrounding the projects displayed, but more often than not the starting point is a vaguely corporate-sounding buzzword: Sustainability! Wearable technologies! Arduino! Connecting to nature was a particularly hot topic, with variations on it ranging from urban botany—like the iPhone app Twigster that helps users identify species of plant life they encounter in parks—to the New-Age crunch of Root Boots, bark-covered footwear that encourages the wearer to stand still and contemplate nature by providing pleasant, low-frequency vibrations when at rest and making scary uprooting sounds when lifted. Voice from the Past also followed the trend of adapting technology to slow the pace of life down; the program lets callers leave a voice message and designate a time in the near or distant future when the recipient will be notified of it. The inverse of that was the whimsical Traveling Sound Museum, with sounds of events like the 1293 sacking of Jaisalmer by the emperor Ala-ud-din Khilji and the 1835 arrival of European explorers in Galapagos in mason jars displayed on an antique wooden cart. (The creator cagily batted away questions about what the burlap in the jars was hiding, and where they "really" came from.) Other projects let computers and audience share the credit for art-making. The "cobots" ShadowBot and SoundBot moved in response to environmental light or noise, respectively, to create messy, Spirogram-like doodles. With the heavy crowds at the ...
Positive Vibes
Any set has begin and end, but the Lucky Dragons played that down in a New York appearance last Saturday; they switched on some recorded sounds as the audience was taking seats, and demonstrated their equipment and chatted after the music's long, slow fadeout. The structure suits the group's hippie philosophy that doesn't assign prominence to any musical moments, but treats all sounds (and people) equally. They also tried to erase borders between performer and audience by encouraging listeners to be mobile, approach the instruments, and improvise, although the narrow length of The Stone, crammed with folding chairs, made it tough for anyone past the two front rows to join in. Lucky Dragons stalwarts Luke Fishbeck and Sarah Andersen were joined by drummer Ches Smith and guitarist Grey Gersten, the curator of The Stone's program this month.
Once everyone was settled in place, Smith and Gersten entered lightly, playing inside the framework of the electronic pulse already hovering in the venue. Gersten struck and dampened his instrument's strings percussively, rather than playing melodies. Over time the drums and guitar settled into a hazy backdrop for electronic, pentatonic glissandos emanating from Fishbeck and Andersen's hacked instruments. Later on they handed audience members a short-circuited wire—wrapped in a colorful knit cozy for safety—that played triadic chords when touched, varying volume according to intensity of squeezes and the amount of grounding (Fader recorded a demonstration of it). The accidental harmonies of that cord, like most of the sonorities in the Lucky Dragons' music, seems to skip across the overtone series, as if the electronic tool is just picking up the natural vibrations hanging in the air. It could be the signature instrument in their wired drum circle ...


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Windermere Redding, Making Wishes Come True
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
On Friday, October 5, Windermere's Redding office will host its first annual Fashion Show and Fundraiser at the WinRiver Casino. The net proceeds raised will go to the local Make-A-Wish and Wings of Angels Foundations. Funds will be used to raise awareness about cancer and other illnesses, as well as to celebrate the strength of the area's young survivors.
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September 05, 2012
Windermere Kids at the Y program update
Posted in Grant recipients by Tara Sharp
The Windermere Foundation has dedicated over 1.2 million dollars to this important cause—helping hundreds of kids through our first network-wide program. This unique partnership provides the YMCA with much-needed funds, as well as support from Windermere agents, who volunteer their time to assist with the summer camps and other kids' activities.
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This girls comfort zone is when she is performing on stage.
These first pictures were of Gracie's first dance which was her solo dance to LIFT ME UP by The Afters.
Second song: BUSTED HEART by King and Country
And Julie wanted to make sure that we knew that Gracie is actually the oldest one of this three-some - she is the one on the left.
These last 2 pictures are of her jazz number, and this time, too, she is the oldest (and smallest) in this group (the gal right next to her is 2 years younger.
They danced to the song: STAND UP by Jessie J
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Everyday the physicians, staff and management of Northwest Surgical Hospital strive to provide the most patient focused and family oriented care. The Northwest Surgical Hospital team promises to exceed the expectations of everyone who walks through our doors.
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Scientific name search results for Epimeriella macronyx , ordered by Scientific name (genus species).
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Gary, oh! O'Connell finally agrees to halt dam
In the ongoing fight over the future water supply, the mayor seems to have finally won a victory over his top executive, City Manager Gary O'Connell, who has been steadfastly attempting to advance what a growing number of critics consider an environmentally and financially questionable 50-year water plan. A sentence adhered November 3 to the bottom of an O'Connell-submitted document [DOC, PDF] finally makes it abundantly clear that construction on the plan's centerpiece, a new dam, must halt until Council gets the information it seeks.
Ironically, given his steady pursuit of the mega-reservoir at Ragged Mountain, even announcing "full steam ahead" after organized opposition emerged, it was O'Connell himself who suggested adding the sentence.
"The new estimated costs on the dam have certainly raised new questions," O'Connell tells the Hook.
"I'm glad to see he's made that jump," says former City Councilor Kevin Lynch, who has been fighting the water plan, which would pump Rivanna River water 9.5 miles uphill to a new reservoir flanking Interstate 64. O'Connell, who been serving on the five-person Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority Board throughout the Board's reliance on Gannett Fleming, which first began dismissing dredging in 2003 [PDF], the year the company was hired by a prior leader to carry out a plan that included dredging.
"For years now," says Lynch, "it's seemed the Rivanna Board just shows up and does whatever Tom Frederick"–- the executive director–- "recommends. What this says to me is that Gary [O'Connell] and Council are finally judging the material on its merits rather than just following the plan because it's the plan."
Lynch remembers feeling shocked by a June 15 email in which O'Connell expresses ignorance [PDF] of the fact that the old Ragged Mountain dam (supposedly in need of total replacement, according to some plan backers), could meet all state standards with a $3.5-million fix.
"If these guys spent a quarter of the energy studying the material that they have [spent] on defending the plan," says Lynch, "then they'd realize that the plan isn't worth defending. And I'd like to think that that's what happened."
Lynch recalls what happened after questions arose over possibly inflated figures submitted by a Pennsylvania engineering firm called Gannett Fleming. Mayor Dave Norris sought a resolution seeking an independent dredging study, but what was handed to Norris and the other Councilors by O'Connell on the night of the May 19 public hearing was a point-by-point endorsement of the controversial plan.
Although a June 2 Council vote eventually forced O'Connell to include language calling for dredging and conservation [DOC, PDF], it was maneuvers like this that brought another former City Councilor into the fray. Three days later, Republican Rob Schilling declared on his WINA radio program that O'Connell was running a "fiefdom."
"There does seem to be some indication that Gary is coming around," says Lynch. "Hopefully, what we're seeing here is the political process at work. I take this as an encouraging sign."
"We made it very clear that the reservoir was created for water supply," Norris said at the November 3 Council meeting. "I hope that our County counterparts will concur."
–last updated 12:25pm, November10
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Okay, so the dam is dead for now, but O'Connell and Frederick are smart enough to resucitate their science project. Just watch!
Today's ASCA meeting....
No, Overrun O'Connell has not given in on anything. He now has turned it over to the BoS and the ACSA to place pressure on Council to capitulate. I hope that Council is smart enough to hold its meetings with the county and its service authority public and not be talked into some kind of representative conclave. I believe the county, with increased public scrutiny, is trying to avoid conducting the additional studies the city has requested, which any second-year engineering student would want before designing a project, to provide substantive elementary data. The county doesn't want to have to answer to the public as to why it did not seek this data before endorsing this no-plan-but-proposal, instead of letting the process languish to the point of its thinking that the clock is ticking.
The city is now in the position of helping the county to fund its need for additional water and sewer resources needed for its ecnomic growth. And, yes, Ken Boyd, I am not opposed to the city funding these necessary studies, even if it will save your citizens a substantial amount of money for the next twenty years.
I hope more and more of the citizens of the city and county citizens will evaluate the roles the participants have played in this authority's decision process and envision the functioning of the proposed regional transit authority.
I hope that Council will hold fast and work for its constituents. They have absolutely no obligations to the county residents to help them pay for their increased water and sewer usage. I hope that council will also grant Overrun O'Connell and leave-of-absence to that he can go look for another job.
We got rid of Bush finally. O'Connell next!!!
It's rare for me to stand up for the city manager. But O'Connell was doing his job. City Council approved the plan June 5, 2006 in a 4-0-1 vote (Kendra Hamilton abstaining because of absence). The statement only requests and doesn't make clear. Council needs to take another vote instead of backroom negotiations with the city manager. What's up with that? Blaming an employee for not doing what you didn't tell him to do officially and publicly...or conversely...doing what he was instructed to do. Citizens for a sustainable water supply and The Hook are not the boss of the city manager. Why did you guys feel the need to demonize the city manager and RWSA director? This is not their water plan. Council and Board of Supervisors made the decision. And whatever plan or no plan will be their legacy. Remember what Huja said in his campaign: "Staff does not tell Council what to do. Council tells staff what to do."
Council in passing the Resolution on Monday night has clearly directed its representatives on the RWSA board as to what to do. They also expressed these same concerns to the City Manager at their Oct. 6th meeting.
The City Manager is doing his job and getting clear direction from Council. Now it is up to him and Ms Mueller's to defend and implement their directive with the other members of the RWSA board The Council has spoken loud and clear with a unanimous vote that they want detailed costs of the dam, pipeline, dredging and the amount of water we need ( the demand number) which accurately factors in the trend lines for the past 6 years showing that the community is using less water. They have also unamimously said no construction at the dam should proceed without this information. The RWSA currently has no accurate information on any of this. How could anyone call this a plan?
The elected officials in the City have stepped up and taken responsibility for the rate-payers, and Mr. Boyd recently read a statement at the Reservoir Task Force asking for the same cost information.
Any businessperson would demand this information before spending over 200million rate-payer dollars.
A Special Meeting of all 4 boards to discuss this is scheduled for either today at 1pm or next Wednsday at 1pm check the City and County web-sites for the location. Anyone aware of this please post it. Thank you
I second Blair Hawkins' points. The tone this article is incredibly disconcerting. I thought only Fox News was capable of "witch hunt" reporting.
I agree with Betty. Check all costs before moving forward. Common sense?
Blair Hawkins does a great job in detailing the history of the Garrett/Sixth Street urban renewal disaster; however, I'm afraid he's not doing a great job in this conversation.
How can anyone characterize Overrun O'Connell's email to the board of RWSA and Mr. Frederick last December advising them to ignore the discussion that they may have heard at a Council meeting in light of the fact that two councilors who have requested more information on that project will be leaving council at the end of the month, implying that their opinions no longer matter? He also did not carbon copy Council this email to show them what actions he took to carry out their voiced wishes (he stated he was given nothing in writing, which is usually the case because his staff does the writing). That information only came to the public's eye through FOIA. Please explain how that is a fine example of a city manager's carrying out the wishes of Council. Let's not start creating history.
And, the Bos and CC voted on a concept, there is no plan that anybody can submit to the state for a future water supply. RWSA has not come up with most of the information that the government requires to be filed for their approval.
Also, the only one that comes to demonizing Overun O'Connell is Cville Eye and I'm not a member of Betty Mooney's group, never met her.


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